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> Google employees

> Interactive chart of Alphabet (GOOG) annual worldwide employee count from 2010 to 2022. Alphabet total number of employees in 2022 was 190,234

There should be a rule where you can't over-represent a group of people in media headlines.

What percentage of 190,000 people called the CEOs response a dumpster fire?

What percentage of 190,000 are even aware of ChatGPT or Google's response to it?

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You only need 2 Google employees to criticize Sundar for "Google employees call the response a dumpster fire" to be plausibly true. When things like this come out in the media, I generally assume n < 10.

That said, you can add me as an Xoogler who thinks that Sundar is phenomenally bad at managing the company.

Why do you think so? That's a tall claim that could warrant showing your calculations. Curious as an outsider.

Journalism has been like that for a while now.

Sometimes it's just as bad as when the media quotes a random tweet from a nobody as their source for "the people" or "the public".

exactly what i was also thinking of

it's almost like they should be required to provide sources

imagine if this headline said "30 out of 190,000 employees noisy/outspoken employees have an angsty opinion on google's CEO"

Reminds me of news articles that quote a couple tweets with 2 likes and no retweets and declare that this is what the people really think.

You would have to be living under a rock to not be aware of Google’s launch.

Journalism is dead

Tech journalism is dead*

No, it's also true as a broad statement.

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